Interpretive Center "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Interpretive Center "Uncle Tom's Cabin", originally uploaded by ujima.

The *real* Uncle Tom was named JOSIAH HENSON. He wrote a book detailing his life in slavery and his escape to freedom in Canada with his wife and children.

Harriet Beecher Stowe had read his book and based Tom of "uncle tom's cabin" on Henson's life and story.

At the Interpretive center we viewed historical pictures and papers, listened to lectures and visited the bookstore.